The Miami Herald on differences between the leaders of the independent library movement in Cuba, and those in the United States.We don’t “take orders from abroad,” said leader Gisela Delgado from Havana.

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It is very positive news that some on the island are seperating themselves from those who decide to "take orders from abroad." However, it does not appear to me that Gisela Delgado is prepared to renounce receiving funding from aboard. If anything, it appears she wants more. I am sure she thinks she and her members are able to take money and defy orders, but basic conflict of interest ethics tells us otherwise. When you take money, it is common sense that you are likely to listen very attentively to orders and do what you can to make your funder happy. This money issue is what got many of the librarians in trouble in the first place.

interesting story on library movement from Herald. NED et al money such a waste, it all goes to continue the pro-embargo industry, the Cuban experts and all others getting government money. Thousands of people depend on the continuation of American policies against Cuba and the government agencies (through taxpayer money) that support it. Shows most of the money goes to pay salaries etc and little to Cuba. what a waste all the way around.

Yes, dissidents on cuba rock, but only if they are separte from the miami mafia. To most cubans, no group with ties to MIami has legitmacy, even the most ardent anti-castro folks are rightfully suspicious of any ties (cultural/political or financial) with the horrible babalu types, who can't even speak spanish and are culturally more gringo than even most gringos.

yeah, well that's the conundrum isn't is? when the opposition all leaves to suckle at the comforting tit of the Americans, then they lose all legitimacy. and then when they accept material and financial aid from the States, the country that wants to reimpose its hegemony upon cuba, well then they just become a joke. Oswaldo Paya and Elizardo Sanchez are opponents to the regime, and they don't prostitute themselves to the US, and they are treated much differently. Quit crying from Miami and do something if you want to change. Opponents survived and helped change Soviets, South Africa, etc. But the gusanos would rather run and hide and scream from across the Florida Straits. Shameful, the whole lot of you. HOw stupid can you be if you don't see how easy it is for the Cuban government to rightfully call those dissidents who accept aid from the US as agents for a foreign power?

"How stupid can you be if you don't see how easy it is for the Cuban government to rightfully call those dissidents who accept aid from the US as agents for a foreign power?"

Right on, Lefty! (Or is it Lefty's clone?) To even THINK that those Cuban gusano ingrates would receive support from abroad to defend such trivial matters as free elections, a free press, uncensored libraries and real trade unions makes my blood boil! After all, Castro & Co. would never accept a single penny from the Soviet Union, Chavez or European bankers to prop up their communist regime, now would they?. Ooooh, the hypocrisy of those gusano vendepatrias makes me want to go over to Villa Marista and "interview" a few of them myself. How about you, Lefy?

you righty guys just dont get it. you can't force changes at the point of a gun, and you sure as heck can't let the cuban mafia lead the charge. free elections, under American terms and control, free press owned by corp concerns that lead the pubic to war (see Iraq) et al under the dictatorship of those who support the destruction of the regime. you can't escape the fact the dissidents who take aid from the US are illegitimate in the eyes of the Cuban government. Deal with that, not the fact the Cuba government receives aid and assistance, what the hell is that point? Name me another country that doesn't? Like the US does, give out aid with all sorts of strings attached. If you think the gusanos get money from US to defend freedom, blah blah blah then you really have been to Disland way too many times.All they want is control, nothing more, nothing less. the losers.